By 1983, Latin America faced mountainous debt and a policy response that was to condemn the region to it's lost decade. Here Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Lee Buchheit outlines how the eurozone could better cope with its crisis

The introduction of Europe’s revised Prospectus Directive has prompted issuers in the region to consider alternative listing venues. But market participants are divided as to whether the market has been permanently damaged

The economic hardship and resulting political upheaval in various eurozone countries threaten the growth prospects and stability of the global economy. A new security - growth sharing rights - could be the answer

Questions as to whether criminal sanctions for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) will have retrospective effect have dominated the market reaction to this morning’s release of the Wheatley Libor Review’s final report

Diversification of Russia’s banking sector following its accession to the WTO will be constrained by raising global capital requirements. But the sector should be bolstered by loan standardisation expected this year

Coller Capital’s acquisition of £1.03 billion of private equity assets from Lloyds Banking Group is the largest unsyndicated secondaries deal ever completed. It reflects the secondary market’s growing popularity as an acceptable way to move capital around

The Treasury Select Committee’s preliminary report on fixing Libor called for reform in several areas of the UK banking sector. Here’s why market participants consider it a defining moment for financial regulation

Shadow banking has been preoccupying regulators for months. IFLR asked Edouard Vieillefond, MD of the French regulator's regulatory policy and international affairs division, how the activity should be supervised

The US Federal Reserve chairman yesterday branded the Libor setting process as structurally flawed. US and UK market players outline the required reforms. But equivalent indices must also change if confidence in the system is to be restored